Good read from the guy who wrote "Fight club" - by Mr. K.
D'Juhn Keep on 11/4/2006 at 23:43
Firstly, you're not separating "well written" with "I don't like reading this content so it sucks".
Secondly, you seem to have judged Fight Club without reading or seeing it, so congrats on that, too :)
TTK12G3 on 11/4/2006 at 23:53
Quote Posted by baeuchlein
I feel a little urge to vomit, by the way.
So at what point did you decide to stop reading? Was it somewhere around the part around "pegging", or the did you read all the way the part about how Arabs "get their rocks off"?Perhaps you glanced over the part about why that one kid had to lower his career expectations? Or maybe you read all the way to the part about the dreaded pool snake? Seriously, just what the hell did you expect?
Oh, and be sure to watch a movie before you decide to comment on it.
Wyclef on 12/4/2006 at 00:18
Quote Posted by baeuchlein
However, my thoughts went into the same general direction when I heard of the story of "Fight Club". People just fighting each other because they're bored, or tired of their lives?
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Ultraviolet on 12/4/2006 at 00:44
TOPIC LINE or: "I can't spell Palahniuk"
and i even copied mine from monkeysee
Sypha Nadon on 12/4/2006 at 02:30
I have a bad reaction to that story, but only because I was reading it while on the toilet and, during the reading of the story, my piles prolapsed or something. So it's more of a bad association thing then gross-out over the actual content.
I dunno... he's an okay writer. "Fight Club" was dreadful, but I enjoyed "Choke". A lot of his other stuff is just so-so. I didn't get through "Haunted", only because I found it pretty dull. If you're looking for "edgy" fiction, look elsewhere.
Scots Taffer on 12/4/2006 at 02:37
Quote Posted by Sypha Nadon
I have a bad reaction to that story, but only because I was reading it while on the toilet and, during the reading of the story, my piles prolapsed or something.
Classic Sypha. I love it.
Agent Monkeysee on 12/4/2006 at 02:50
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
Chuck Palahniuk writes precisely like I did in grade 11.
Haha I'm pretty sure I had that exact thought when reading "Fight Club".
Which is a shame because the movie is fantastic.
Quote Posted by baeuchlein
However, my thoughts went into the same general direction when I heard of the story of "Fight Club". People just fighting each other because they're bored, or tired of their lives? Stupid, idiotic, primitive - and not worth paying for, at least not for me.
That's not quite what it's about. Watch the movie, it's tons more enjoyable than the book.
io organic industrialism on 12/4/2006 at 02:55
the power of this story is how vulnerable it leaves you feeling after you have read it. it changes your psyche and your outlook on everything, if only for a few hours
Quote Posted by baeuchlein
However, my thoughts went into the same general direction when I heard of the story of "Fight Club". People just fighting each other because they're bored, or tired of their lives? Stupid, idiotic, primitive - and not worth paying for, at least not for me.
I really can't understand how anyone could like to read about such ideas.
i haven't read the book. but i watched the movie. it was very meaningful to me. here's what i got from it:
if you get rid of everything in your life, if you get rid of all desires, if you stop caring about anything, then you no longer want anything or need anything and you live a less unsatisfying life. they didn't fight because they are bored. they fought because they didn't give a FUCK about anything. the fighting is more of an affirmation that they don't care about anything, not even pain.
in my eyes, this whole philosophy is not unsimilar to buddhism - ridding yourself of desires in an attempt to reach nirvana. and they created a whole religion on that.
fight club is powerful to me i guess because it resonated so deeply within me. i have been terminally depressed 1/2 of my life. often i have escape fantasies of dropping everything in my life, all material possessions, all sense of place, going somewhere completely foreign, forgetting all friends and family and everything, and just being vagrant.... all this to avoid the fucked up reality that is my life.
and i often want to beat the fuck out of someone and get the shit beaten out of me in the process.
Agent Monkeysee on 12/4/2006 at 03:01
Quote Posted by io organic industrialism
if you get rid of everything in your life, if you get rid of all desires, if you stop caring about anything, then you no longer want anything or need anything and you live a less unsatisfying life. they didn't fight because they are bored. they fought because they didn't give a FUCK about anything. the fighting is more of an affirmation that they don't care about anything, not even pain.
I suggest you rewatch it and pay special attention to the THIRD ACT.
For crying out loud people the movie doesn't end when he sets up Project Mayhem.
